A 16-year-old Port Clinton girl was fatally injured in a truck accident on Tuesday. The girl was a passenger in an SUV that struck a truck on Ohio 53 between Oak Harbor Southeast Road and Streeter Road at 5:39 p.m., according to the Ohio State Highway Patrol. The driver of the vehicle, a 17-year-old…
This week is National Drowsy Driving Prevention Week. The campaign, which started yesterday and runs through the end of the week, aims to raise awareness and educate motorists about the dangers of getting behind the while of a motor vehicle while sleepy. The goal of the week, which is supported and run by the…
As many states have attempted to make roadways safer for commercial truck and passenger vehicles, the reality is that accidents will still occur and people need to continue to be alert and aware of their surroundings when traveling on interstate or highways roads that frequent commercial trucks, like tractor-trailers or semis. According to Ohio…
Recent news reports detail that a truck driver remains in critical condition following a multi-truck accident on Interstate 95 South. A 59-year-old tractor-trailer driver, from Williamsburg, New Jersey, was critically injured while driving a rig carrying cranberries when his rig rear-ended a flatbed tractor-trailer that was stopped for traffic half a mile south of…
A truck driver from Cleveland reportedly caused a truck accident in Washington County, Pa. last Monday. No one was hurt in the truck accident but as a result of the crash the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation recently ordered that the bridge be torn down. According to news reports, a 49-year-old truck driver was reportedly…
A Chicago, Ill., truck driver was recently sentenced to serve 30 days in jail and pay a fine in connection with a truck accident that killed four people riding on a special needs bus during a snowstorm in Ohio. According to the Springfield News-Sun, a 60-year-old truck driver was sentenced on Wednesday following a…
A recent truck accident in Ohio critically injured 5 people, including two children and an infant, last week on I-70 when a tractor-trailer and a minivan collided in western Franklin County. According to Franklin County deputies, the truck accident occurred around 3 p.m. when a Ford Windstar heading east on Interstate 70 was struck…
News reports are calling one woman “extremely lucky” after her vehicle was sideswiped yesterday by two tanker trucks on Ohio Interstate 122 between Hart and Springboro roads in Clearcreek Twp. According to the Ohio State Highway Patrol, the truck accident occurred when the woman was driving her Ford Thunderbird west on Ohio 122 around…
A truck accident lawsuit initiated by the families of 10 people that were killed after a tractor-trailer slammed into a line of stopped vehicles was recently settled for an estimated $62.7 million dollars. This settlement stems from a suit filed by the families of eight of the victims from 2009 in Cleveland County and…
A serious truck accident at Ohio 511 and U.S. 30 West injured two individuals on Monday. As a result of the crash, one lane of “U.S. 30 westbound was expected to open around 2 p.m. today, but Ohio 511 between U.S. 30 and 42 remains closed after a commercial tanker hauling 8,500 gallons of…